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Name
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Blue Tier Tin Mines
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Type of carceral site
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Penal Settlement
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Dates of use
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1874 – 1913
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Quote
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[A] rough camp of huts straggling up the ranges, with shafts cut deep into the hills, and miners' huts mixed with those of the black labourers.
Report.
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Royal Society of Tasmania, 1886, p. 72.
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... we cannot regard the situation of the Aboriginal females amongst that class of men as differing materially from that of slavery… The object of these men in retaining the women, most of whom it is asserted were originally kidnapped, is obviously for the gratification of their lust, and for the sake of the labour they can extract from them.
Aboriginal History.
Edmonds, Penelope. "Collecting Looerryminer's 'Testimony': Aboriginal Women, Sealers, and Quaker Humanitarian Anti-Slavery Thought and Action in the Bass Strait Islands." Australian Historical Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, 2014, pp. 13-33, https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2013.877505: pp. 14-15.
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The disappearance of all the young children among the natives compels us to the inference that they were destroyed, doubtless on account of the difficulty of conveying them about in the rapid flights from place to place which the blacks now practised in the perpetration of their murders.
Memoir/Autobiography.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years. John Murray, 1852, p. 201.
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Authority
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Masters and Servant Acts (Tasmania, 1856-1870s); Regulation of Mines Act 1881 (Tasmania)
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Archives and sources
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Kristyn Harman, Aboriginal Convicts: Aborigines, Khoisan and Māori Exiles in the Australian Penal Colonies. NewSouth Publishing, 2012.
Pybus, Cassandra. Community of Thieves. Heinemann Australia, 1991.
National Library of Australia, Canberra.
Ryan, Lyndall. The Aboriginal Tasmanians. University of Queensland Press, 1981.
State Library of Tasmania, Hobart.
State Library of New South Wales Sydney.
Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office.
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Contact
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Kieren
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identifier
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SITE-BM
